Browse Movies : TBA Month : Drama : U (Page #4)

The story of how Judah Maccabee teamed with his father and four brothers to lead the Jewish revolt against the Greek-Syrian armies that had conquered Judea in the second century B.C

Based on an article in Wired magazine, the movie centers around the true story of a $100 million diamond heist in Antwerp.

A young boy is taught by his father, a racer, to ride motocross before he can even walk. The boy goes on to win racing titles by the time he is seven, and at sixteen becomes the first African American to win a major motosports title. The son's sudden success though strains his relationship with his dad.

Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani rape victim, wages a legal battle against her attackers and the justice system that sanctioned the crime. When her young brother goes before a council of tribal elders after he is accused of being seen with a girl from a rival tribe, Mai pleads for his release. They spare him -- but order that she be gang-raped in public to shame her family. While most victims of this authorized crime commit suicide rather than exist as a pariah, Mai fights back.

High school theater teacher Lynn Shaw transforms a defunct drama department at J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas into one of the country's top theater programs. Shaw died from breast cancer in August 2009 after having beaten it nine years earlier.

Set against a backdrop of music, surfing, and South Africa's racism, Selema "Sal" Masekela emerges out of the shadow of his successful but troubled father Hugh Masekela, the jazz musician featured on Paul Simon’s "Graceland" album and South African apartheid activist who was exiled for more than 30 years.

A young woman follows her boyfriend to Miami after he gets drafted into the NBA. Thrust into the world of professional sports, she meets and learns from the sisterhood of players' wives and from their trials & tribulations.

This Peggy Lee biopic will explore the professional and personal life of one of America's most iconic recording artists and performers. A singer, songwriter, composer and actress, Lee's career spanned nearly seven decades.

In the 1970s, Ted Patrick becomes known as the "father of deprogramming" and is seen as savior to many parents who had seemingly lost their children to cults. The Special Assistant for Community Relations for then Governor Ronald Reagan, the civil rights activist’s life is upended when his 14 year-old son is nearly converted by the Children of God cult. Subsequently, Patrick reaches out to those families with relatives who had joined the group. Patrick even pretends to join Children of God to learn how they operate. Despite professional training, he is hired by parents and family members to help deprogram their loved ones. Patrick's methods find him standing trial several times on kidnapping charges – a part of his technique he ceases though he continues trying to deprogram cult members like those who have joined Scientology. He is convicted on a number of felony charges over the years due to his methods.

In 1940s Hollywood, private detective Toby Peters finds himself involved with various cases involving celebrities in entertainment industry.

Set in present day, Al Capone's great nephew, a cop, tries to make right some of the wrong done by his family in the past.

After Earth becomes occupied by a powerful alien race, an uprising by a group of Earth's citizens occurs.

Follows the Pentagon UFO program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program which has secretly been in operation since 2007.

An American takes a job in Hong Kong with an investment banker and realizes his boss is in cahoots with organized crime and is embezzling from the company -- the situation becomes even more precarious when he finds himself promoted to become his boss's right hand man.

A high-end sex-worker returns to her native New York City after more than a decade abroad. She quickly makes herself at home. She sets up a rotation of clients―all of them in finance―each of whom has different delusions of how he is important to her. And she's also met a man whom she doesn't charge―a damaged former Army Ranger, back from Afghanistan.

Silicon Valley workers grapple with their IPO dreams evaporating and dust off their resumes.

The Manassas Tigers football team from inner-city Memphis has been a perennial loser for so long that the school sells slots in its schedule to more affluent schools looking for an easy win. But the Tigers learn to "roar" with the help of a dogged head coach. They win games and the coach helps the players prepare for manhood and life after high school.

A small farmhouse stands in Seattle perfectly fine for about 100 years as the city grows around it, until in 2006 when a big commercial development encroaches on it, buying all the homes in the neighborhood except the one holdout.